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Was listening to the 15 Jan 2012 edition of Jarvis Cocker’s Sunday Service, and I heard something that scared me. Not the frightened-scared, it’s the eerie-creepy-scared.

It is Benny Goodman Orchestra “Sing, Sing, Sing” featuring Gene Krupa on the Drums, Harry James on Trumpet from the 1937 film “Hollywood Hotel”.
Krupa’s tom-tom interludes on the record were the first extended drum solos to be recorded commercially.

The obsessive Doctor Génessier attempts heterografting, via experimental surgery, to restore the face of Christiane, whose face has been horribly disfigured in a car accident. Louise lures young women to their home while in Doctor Génessier’s home laboratory to perform experiments on them that will restore Christiane’s beauty.Wikipedia

When I first came upon this mammoth book in Cologne, I wanted to possess it. But the price and the size doesn’t permit me to do so at that time. it was too in Cologne that I finally get to see the cycle in it entirety. The first time I saw the cycle was in the now defunct The Other Cinema in London. It’s next to my workplace at that time. And I could not resist something like this:Continue reading →